Instead Mozilla has made the curious decision to pull the plug on the long-delayed project, while offering only small clues as to why the decision was made.

The announcement was posted by Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg on the Bugzilla development page. He ordered Mozilla employees and community developers:

Please stop building windows 64 builds and tests.

As for why the he opted to pull the plug on 64-bit for now, he comments, "Many plugins are not available in 64-bit versions. The plugins that are available don’t work correctly in Firefox because we haven’t implemented things like windowproc hooking, which means that hangs are more common."

Firefox 64-bit development is dead for now. [Image Source: Flickr/dimnikolov]

But you're not getting my point, that I'd MUCH rather pay money to increase memory in the system than do without the FF add-ons, they are central to my use of that particular system and at this point I'd just stay off the internet before I'd surf what are today sites so obnoxious that it is intolerable without some add-ons and I don't mean only the two most popular nor that it has anything to do with broadband bandwidth, I just despise some of the asshole ideas put out there these days.